Thursday, October 30, 2025

The social media abbreviations confusing people the most

New findings reveal the social media abbreviations that are confusing people the most, and FB' has come in first place.

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... These insights come from the website design agency ProfileTree who gathered a list of acronyms and initialisms most commonly used on social media, such as FYI' and LOL'. The firm analysed the monthly search volume of each acronym with search terms like what does FYI mean' and ranked these from highest to lowest searches to reveal the top 10 most confusing.

Top 10 Most Confusing Social Media Abbreviations ...

Rank Abbreviation Monthly Searches
1 FB 364,274
2 TIME 212,240
3 ATM 103,356
4 BB 99,615
5 DL 87,000
6 MSG 55,911
7 LOL 54,969
8 AMA 51,948
9 GG 44,624
10 BBL 39,801
...


[the article goes on to explain those abbreviations ....]


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-30 10:12 PM

I was kinda surprised LOL was ambigulous.

:)

(and, yeah, I messed up the format of that table. Oops.)

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-30 10:14 PM

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